<s>
SAP	B-Application
Business	O
Warehouse	O
(	O
SAP	B-Application
BW	I-Application
)	O
is	O
SAP	B-Application
’s	O
Enterprise	O
Data	O
Warehouse	O
product	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
ran	O
on	O
industry	O
standard	O
RDBMS	B-Application
until	O
version	O
7.3	O
at	O
which	O
point	O
it	O
began	O
to	O
transition	O
onto	O
SAP	B-Application
's	O
HANA	B-Application
in-memory	B-General_Concept
DBMS	O
,	O
particularly	O
with	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
version	O
7.4	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Latterly	O
,	O
it	O
evolved	O
into	O
a	O
product	O
called	O
BW/4HANA	O
so	O
as	O
to	O
align	O
with	O
SAP	B-Application
's	O
sister	O
ERP	O
Product	O
called	O
S/4HANA	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
strategy	O
allowed	O
SAP	B-Application
to	O
engineer	O
the	O
database	O
to	O
use	O
the	O
HANA	B-Application
in-Memory	B-General_Concept
database	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
product	O
is	O
also	O
more	O
open	O
and	O
can	O
incorporate	O
SAP	B-Application
and	O
Non-SAP	O
data	O
more	O
easily	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1998	O
SAP	B-Application
released	O
the	O
first	O
version	O
of	O
SAP	B-Application
BW	I-Application
,	O
providing	O
a	O
model-driven	O
approach	O
to	O
EDW	O
that	O
made	O
data	O
warehousing	O
easier	O
and	O
more	O
efficient	O
,	O
particularly	O
for	O
SAP	B-Application
R/3	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
then	O
,	O
SAP	B-Application
BW	I-Application
has	O
evolved	O
to	O
become	O
a	O
key	O
component	O
for	O
thousands	O
of	O
companies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
article	O
,	O
provided	O
the	O
history	O
of	O
SAP	B-Application
BW	I-Application
from	O
inception	O
to	O
the	O
newer	O
releases	O
powered	O
by	O
SAP	B-Application
HANA	I-Application
.	O
</s>
